books by Tom Demarco (controlling information management)

books by Tom Demarco

books:

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
Tom Demarco, Peter Hruschka, ...

Dorset House, 2008

Adrenaline junkies, dead fish, project sluts, true believers, Lewis and Clark, template zombies . . . Most developers, testers, and managers on IT projects are pretty good at recognizing patterns of behavior and gut-level hunches, as in, I sense that this project is headed for disaster. But it has always been more difficult to transform these patterns and hunches into a usable form, something a team can debate, refine, and use. Until now. In ...

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition)
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Dorset House, 1999

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. Their answers aren't easy--just incredibly successful. New second edition features eight all-new chapters. Softcover. Previous edition: c1987. DLC: Management.

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Tom DeMarco

Crown Business, 2002

If your company’s goal is to become fast, responsive, and agile, more efficiency is not the answer--you need more slack. Why is it that today’s superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a ...

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Dorset House, 2003

Any software project that's worth starting will be vulnerable to risk. Since greater risks bring greater rewards, a company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes—in the name of positive thinking or a Can-Do attitude—software managers drive their organizations into the ground. In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy ...

Software Creativity 2.0
Robert L Glass

developer.* Books, 2006

"This book is written from a powerfully felt, personal perspective: that software construction is primarily a problem-solving activity; that all problem-solving requires creativity; that software problem-solving is deeply complex, perhaps more deeply complex than any other activity; and that, therefore, software problem-solving requires the ultimate in creativity." --Robert L. Glass, from the Preface In Software Creativity 2.0, acclaimed author ...

Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister

NY: Dorset House Publishing, 1987

Peopleware asserts that most software development projects fail because of failures within the team running them. This strikingly clear, direct book is written for software development-team leaders and managers, but it's filled with enough commonsense wisdom to appeal to anyone working in technology. Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister include plenty of illustrative, often amusing anecdotes; their writing is light, conversational, and filled ...

The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
Tom DeMarco

Dorset House, 1997

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Structured Analysis and System Specification
Tom Demarco

Prentice Hall, 1979

This classic book of tools and methods for the analyst brings order and precisions to the specification process as it provides guidance and development of a structured specification. Covers functional decomposition; data dictionary; process specification; system modeling; structured analysis for a future system. Suitable for practicing systems analysts.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2013

Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware . The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. They’re not easy issues; but solve them, and you’ll maximize your chances of success. Peopleware has long been one of my two favorite books on software engineering. Its underlying strength is its base of ...

Andronescu's Paradox, 2013

Armageddon is about to happen, but it's not what you think. This war is not going to blow anything up; it's just going to turn everything off . . . On the top floor of Cornell University’s Clark Hall, physicist, Homer Layton and his three young PhD assistants have accepted some DoD funding to build a simulation program to pursue a promising new theory in quantum mechanics. The funding, however has come with strings attached: The DoD obliges ...

Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie
Tom DeMarco

Down East Books, 2002

These stories poke fun at college professors and religion, examine the complex mathematics of finding both love and the proverbial needle in a haystack, and deftly probe the boundary between imagination and reality. From a dying man who makes a blanket for himself from his favorite books to a young boy who discovers love in the unlikeliest form, the characters come wonderfully to life.

Controlling Software Projects
Tom Demarco

Yourdon Press, 1982

Wien wartet auf Dich. Der Faktor Mensch im DV- Management.
Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Hanser Fachbuch, 1999

Software State of the Art: Selected Papers
Tom Demarco

Dorset House, 1990

Concerned as we are about information anxiety and about possible deformation of tectonic plates due to the accumulation of unread Datamations and Computerworlds, we decided to search through the tons of software literature published over the last ten years and select the good stuff. Hence this collection, We can't guarantee that it includes every single paper worth reading from the eighties, but we claim it is close. Do yourself a huge favor: ...

Dark Harbor House

Down East Books, 2000

Bring together a wonderfully varied mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer cottage, leave them to their own devices over the course of a long, idyllic summer in the late 1940s, and you have all the ingredients for a fine comedy of manners. Author Tom DeMarco starts with a simple little love story, weaves in tantalizing details of the old mansion's not totally respectable history, and adds a hint of gentle satire to create a novel ...